Are there any specific PHP classes or libraries recommended for extracting creation dates from image files?

To extract creation dates from image files in PHP, you can use the exif_read_data() function to read the metadata of the image file. This function returns an associative array containing all the EXIF headers of the image, including the creation date. You can then access the creation date using the 'DateTimeOriginal' key in the array. 

// Specify the path to the image file
$imagePath = 'path/to/image.jpg';

// Read the EXIF data from the image file
$exifData = exif_read_data($imagePath);

// Check if the creation date is available in the EXIF data
if(isset($exifData['DateTimeOriginal'])){
    $creationDate = $exifData['DateTimeOriginal'];
    echo "Creation Date: " . $creationDate;
} else {
    echo "Creation date not found in the image metadata.";
}

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